The news from Athens to the offert that the Allied troops operating against the Turks have occupied Maidos comes as a distinctly pleasant surprise, and the official ...
Article : 362 wordsThe Government newspaper "Embros," also the "Athenae," which hitherto has been pro-German, now advocate immediate intervention on the side of the Allies. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Berlin official wireless bureau states that the Archduke Frederick, who was present, says that General Von Mackensen, who is commanding the Austro-Germans, ...
Article : 163 wordsPresident Wilson has decided to reserve his opinion regarding the torpedoing of the American steamer Gulf Light until the official details are received. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe enemy claim an important Success in Western Galicia. Russian reports do not ...
Article : 114 wordsThe following additional casualty list has been made available:— OFFICERS KILLED. Lieutenants DODSON, RICHARDSON, ...
Article : 244 wordsA further list of New Zealand casualties in the Dardanelles is published. Col. MacLaurin, of the New ...
Article : 91 wordsPrivate Whyte, who died from wounds received in the Dardanelles fighting on April 29, was a popular local sportsman. In 1899 he was stroke for the South Australian ...
Article : 98 wordsA message from Constantinople says the prisoners from the British submarine which was lost in the Dardanelles were marched through Constantinople wearing fezes. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "New York Herald," in an article headed "Must We Go To War With Germany?" says, "The time for the generalities of diplomatic exchanges is past, and ...
Article : 43 wordsA communication has been received in Adelaide indicating that Lance-corporal Bayly, a South Australian, formerly of Semaphore, was killed in action in Flanders on April 16. ...
Article : 85 wordsCorrespondents at Rome state that the abandonment of the visit to Genoa of the King and Ministers has created a deep impression, though Rome newspapers agree ...
Article : 81 wordsA submarine sank[?]two trawlers in the North Sea. Both trawlers were sunk by gunfire and were not torpedoed. The crews were rescued. ...
Article : 155 wordsYesterday's English mail brought full particulars of the naval attack on the Dardanelles on March 18, when the French battleship Bouvet and the British battleships ...
Article : 948 wordsA Berlin communique says: After severe fighting in Western Galicia, from the Hungarian frontier to the Dumajec and the Vistula, we penetrated the Russian front ...
Article : 48 wordsSome time ago it was suggested by a military expert in Petrograd that the Germans were concentrating large' forces down in the Cracow region with the object of launching, ...
Article : 308 wordsThe Allies' warships have resumed the bombardment of the Dardanelles and Smyrna forts. ...
Article : 22 wordsWhile claiming the capture of 8000 Russians, the Austrian communique is more modest than the German. It simply claims the repulse of the Russians on the front ...
Article : 59 wordsMany German military surgeons have been accusing the British troops of using dum-dums. A leading Bavarian medical journal, after strict and prolonged ...
Article : 41 wordsReports from Mitylene state that the British disembarkation continues at two points. All the Turkish forts protecting Maidos were destroyed from the land, and ...
Article : 106 wordsPrivate cable advice has been received that Captain James Ronald, of the Kent Regiment (the Buffs), sixth son of the late Mr. R. B. Ronald, who was well known in ...
Article : 49 wordsThe U39 destroyed the Swedish schooner Elsa. The crew were landed at Leith. The submarine's captain stated that the Elsa was the fourth vessel he had sunk ...
Article : 31 wordsThere are indications that the Germans are preparing for another great effort to break through. Their reinforcements in Flanders include considerable cavalry. ...
Article : 101 wordsBerlin is beflagged and jubilating over the rumoured victory in the Carpathians, also the piercing of the Russian front in Western Galicia. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe High Commissioner for Australia. Sir George Reid, has handed over the sum of £4600 which was collected in Melbourne on King Albert's birthday. ...
Article : 30 wordsTwo shrapnel shells struck the Falgent, which was sunk by a submarine off the south-west coast of Ireland, killing the mate, who was at the wheel, and mortally ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Justice Rooth has received news that his brother, Colonel Rooth, of the Dublin Fusiliers, was killed in the Dardenelles operations. ...
Article : 31 wordsA communique states: A desperate battle has been developing since Saturday on a front from the lower Nida as far as the Carpathians in the region of Gladycheff. ...
Article : 79 wordsRussia is issuing, in foreign markets, £20,000,000 worth of 5 per cent. Treasury bonds. ...
Article : 26 wordsNow it is apparent that the forecast of the Petrograd expert was a sound one; for the Germans, the Austrians, and the Russians all refer to a big battle in Western Galicia. ...
Article : 382 wordsThe majority of the vital points of the Dardanelles defences are invested. The Australians and New Zealanders fought magnificently against a ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Royal Mail Shipping Company's report states that the immunity of the company's ships from attack is largely attributable to supplying the vessels with ...
Article : 34 wordsThe High Commissions, Sir George Reid, has advised the Prime Minister, Mr. Fisher, of the receipt of the following telegram from Lord Tennyson, a former Governor-General of ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Official Press Bureau announces that the American Embassy in Berlin reports that the British officers [?]mprisoned at Burg and Magdeburg are in separate cells. ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Admiralty state that after the destroyer action on Saturday strenuous efforts were made to rescue German sailors. Lieut. Hartnoll jumped into the water to ...
Article : 116 wordsA Taube flew over Calais, and dropped papers, saying: "Expect us at Calais in three days." ...
Article : 18 wordsA private cable message was received yesterday, intimating that Major Charles Melville Macnaghten, of Sydney, was slightly wounded in the Dardanelles action, but is ...
Article : 695 wordsColonel Doughty-Wylie, who was directer of the British Red Cross in Turkey in [?] and whose courage saved hundreds of lives in the Armenian massacre at ...
Article : 54 wordsFugitives at Ecloo report terrible German losses. Every locality in the immediate German rear is overflowing with wounded. Many succumb in the ...
Article : 60 wordsA communique reports important skarmishing in Poland, on the Bzura, near Mistrevitze. ...
Article : 20 wordsA communique states that the Russian [?] bombarded the Bosphorus forts, and caused a great explosion and fire at Fort Elmas. ...
Article : 56 wordsA German communique says: We have captured a further 1780 Russians south of Mitau (in the Baltic province of Courland). ...
Article : 30 wordsThe fighting is progressing most successfully for the British around Armentieres and Houplines. The British are in possession of Armentieres, and have ...
Article : 71 wordsFeverish interest is being evinced in a great national demonstration to be held at Genoa on Wednesday, when the King was expected to unveil a monument to the ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Senator Pearee, to-day gave an absolute denial to the rumour that the Defence Department was withholding news of large losses. He ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Chinese-Japanese negotiations have reached a deadlock, and apprehension is felt that Japan may take action. The negotiations disclosed that Japan ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Laengskra lighthouse, off the Aland Islands (Baltic Sen), has been burned. It is believed that it was set on fire by shells from warships. ...
Article : 30 wordsA communique states: Two German night attacks on Sunday and Monday were repulsed, one against the British north of Ypres, and the other against the French at ...
Article : 37 wordsBut, apart from both German and Austrian communiques, we have the Russian version. And let it be emphasised that from the [?] outset of the war no communiques issued by ...
Article : 456 wordsThe Australian voluntary hospital forms the nucleus of a 1500-beds unit under the War Office called the Australian Hospital, for which Australia is sending sufficient ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Prize Court is now dealing with the German vessel Ophelia. Early in November the vessel was captured when flying the Red Cross flag. ...
Article : 165 wordsAirmen bombed the railway station and military buildings at Bruges and butteries in the district. The airmen escaped. ...
Article : 25 wordsColonel Henry Normand MacLaurin, whose death has been reported by private cable message, was the fourth son of the late Sir Normand MacLaurin, who was ...
Article : 334 wordsAmong the Canadian wounded, is Corportil Barlinson, a New Zealander. ...
Article : 17 wordsGeneral Joffre has forbidden shopkeepers in the war zone to supply alcohol to soldiers, including the British, who are restricted to the regulation allowance. This ...
Article : 51 wordsAn internal loan of a hundred millions sterling, bearing 5[?] per cent. interest, and issued at £99, with five years' currency, and thereafter convertible to 75 years' ...
Article : 56 wordsThe German officers of the sunken torpedo boats, rahter than allow their men to be rescued, shot five dead while the latler were leaping into the water. The ...
Article : 73 wordsA German book is published describing the retreat from Paris. It declares that the strength of the French was due to the magnificent qualities of the English, who ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Agent-General for South Australia (Mr. Young) stated in an interview that, while not wishing to increase the task of the British Governer at regarding the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe casualties at Gibeon (German Southwest Africa) include the death of Major Watt, brother to the Minister for Works. It is officially stated that General ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is reported that 750 chainworkers at Oldhill, who were engaged in Government work, have struck work in connection with the war bonus question. ...
Article : 38 wordsGermany, through a neutral channel, has expressed her appreciation of Australia's courtesy in giving the German New Guinea officials a safe conduct to Germany. ...
Article : 32 wordsThere were widespread expressions of sorrow to-day when it became generally known that Lieut. P. S. Anderson, eldest son of Mr. John Anderson, of Newstead South, was ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 5 May 1915, Page 11
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